The European Physical Society has published an interview with the 2015 “Emmy Noether Distinction Autumn-Winter 2015 for Women in Physics” award, with Prof. Sibylle Guenter from the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics [IPP] in Garching, Germany.
Prof. Guenter is one of the leading theoretical physicists in the field of magnetic fusion plasmas.
After a thesis on computational investigation of radiation from dense plasmas at the University of Rostock in 1990, she served as Scientific Assistant to the Chair of Theoretical Physics I.
Later she spent a few months in the United States at the University of Maryland and at NIST in Washington DC. She joined the IPP Garching in 1996 and was appointed Max-Planck director in 2000. She regularly gives plasma physics lectures at the Technical University of Munich. She perfectly manages research work and management, with duties at the highest level in Germany (IPP Scientific Director) and at the European level (EUROfusion consortium). Among her most important scientific achievements, one can point out her work on magnetohydrodynamics and fast particle interactions in fusion plasmas.